NORTH POINT
RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT

Following an international design competition, aA was commissioned to design the residential component of a mixed-use development in Cambridge, MA near MIT.

The residences consist of two buildings. A 12-storey tower marks the corner of the precinct’s main boulevard. At a right angle to the tower, a 10-storey bar building extends across the site.

Throughout Boston, streets of rowhouses overlook long-established public greens. The North Point bar building reinterprets this traditional urban form: at grade, two-storey duplex units establish a strong street wall and let out onto a parkette to the south, or face a new public park to the north.

The North Point residential buildings address a complex brief: up close, they provide an intimate residential experience for pedestrians. At a distance, their patterned skins, combining colour and transparency, mark and give identity to this new community. North Point will be completed in the Summer of 2006.

COLLIERS INTERNATIONAL
CAMBRIDGE, MA
2006
US$52 MILLION
3,250 m2
230 UNITS